The Chinese Town That Turns Your Old Christmas Tree Lights Into Slippers
Every year, 20 million pounds of the discarded holiday lights make their way to Shijiao… More »
Adam Minter is the Shanghai correspondent for the Bloomberg World View blog. He is writing a book about the globalization of the scrap recycling industry for Bloomsbury Press.
Every year, 20 million pounds of the discarded holiday lights make their way to Shijiao… More »
An activist artist enrages the Chinese Communist Party—less with his work than with his tweets… More »
Years ago, Jews came simply to survive; now, says a local rabbi, they come to prosper… More »
From the diminutive Hong Kong exhibit to the "Axis of Evil" cluster, a photo tour of the most interesting -- and symbolic -- pavilions.… More »
The Chinese are preparing to greet Obama like a rock star, even as they outspokenly critique his policies.… More »
Our correspondent reports from a hilltop observatory in Shanghai, where locals flocked to witness the eclipse of the century.… More »
The upcoming World's Fair should offer the chance to build a showpiece U.S. pavilion. But thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuverings and State Department incompetence, we may end up with a Chinese-funded pavilion—or no pavilion at all … More »
Every morning for the last week and half, Norm Coleman has strode into the Minnesota Supreme Court chambers just before 9 A.M. and taken a seat at the table shared by his three, and sometimes more, lawyers, attempting to regain his excruciatingly narrow Election Night victory over Al Franken. It had dissolved quickly: by the end of December, following an expensive and careful recount of 2.9 million ballots (which Coleman had fully expected would cement his…… More »
A new twist in the Norm Coleman-Al Franken Senate race recount trial throws Franken's victory into question, and promises to extend the already seemingly endless court battle indefinitely … More »
For the last decade or so, scrap metal has been the largest volume export from the United States to China. But with the economy in a tailspin, unclaimed scrap metal is starting to pile up at China's ports… More »
A look at some of China's major metal processing plants.… More »
Our correspondent reports from the Olympic sailing competition in Qingdao.… More »
A population of gambling enthusiasts plays bemused host to a series of equestrian events unrelated to racing or betting… More »
Our correspondent attends the first Olympic soccer game at Shanghai stadium and explains why Shanghai is only grudgingly playing co-host for this year's Olympics… More »
Jin Luxian’s 50-year struggle to keep Catholicism alive in China, balance Rome and Beijing, and build a Church for “100 million Catholics”… More »
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